Knob for furniture and the like



April 15 1924. 1,490,854

A. J. RUTTER KNOB FOR FuRN'ITuRE NuTHE LIKE Filed April 17. 1.922 I Evento n Rutter j Patented Apr. 15, 1924.

UNHE sates ear ALBEBTUS J. BUTTER, OF L$ ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

KNOB FOR FURNITURE AND THE LIKE.

Application filed April 17, 1922. Serial No. 554,342.

1 '0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Annnurus J, BUTTER, a citizen of the United States.and a resident of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful. lin n'ovemcmz in Knobs forFurniture and the like, of which the following is a specification.

lily invention relates to knobs, handles and the like for furniture orother equipment having drawers, doors and other parts made to bewithdrawn or opened and has for its primary object improved means forattaching the knob to the furniture, so as to present a neat appearanceand at the same i ime offering a convenient and practical device underall conditions.

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated several practical. formsof the invention which will serve for the purpose of a thoroughunderstanding' of the salient features of the idea, in said drawing,Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a knob as attached in accordance withmy invention; Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 Figure 1; Figure 3 isa face view of one form of the screw anchor; Figure l is a side view ofa slightly modified form of the anchor; Figure 5 is a face view of aform of anchor shown in Figure 4E; and Figure 6 is a face view of stillanother form of anchor. Referring now to the drawing in detail,represents a drawer, panel, door or the like made a part of a piece offurniture and adapted to be swung open or pulled out by the knobs Bwhich there may be one or several according to the requirements. In anyevent, the knobs are attached to the perv A. and since my particularimprovement is devised especially for glass knobs, the attaching meanscomprises a relatively long bolt (5) made to be inserted through anopening in the glass knob from the front thereof and having a head (6)to serve as an abutment for the face of the knob so as to hold the knobon the bolt. The bolt is passed through an opening in the member A whichas above stated may be either a door, panel, drawer or the like. Theinserted end of the bolt is threaded for a certain part of its length asshown at (7) and the inside of the member A is cut out to leave anopening (8) larger than the opening through which the bolt (5) entersthe member A. The opening (8) acts virtually as a countersink to receivethe shank of the screw anchor (10) which may be made in various forms,for instance as shown in Figure 2, the same comprises a relatively broadfiat head (11) having a screw driver slot (12) whereas in Figures 4 and5 the screw anchor includes a small hexagonal head (13), also having ascrew driver slot. Of course the opening (8) is made of diameter anddistance to accommodate the dimensions of the shank of the screw anchor,for instance, the shank (9) is shorter and larger than the shank (9) butthe shank may be made in other dimensions consequently the opening (8)will be made to correspond. As shown in Figure 6, the screw anchorincludes somewhat the same form as shown in Figure 2 but instead of thescrew driver slot (2) relatively small spaced openings (1 are used toreceive a key for turning purposes. In all forms of the screw anchor theshank is made with an internal recess having screw threads made toreceive the screw threads on the end (7) of the bolt.

As heretofore practiced the knob (B) has been usually applied by meansof the bolt (5) by the bolt extending through the member (A) and anordinary nut was used for the threaded'end (7) which left not only anunsightly obstruction on the inside surface of the door, panel, draweror the like but the nut invariably became loosened which would in turnloosen the knob (B) causing the same to rattle and even drop off. Vithmy improvement, the detail arrangement insures a positive hold on thebolt yet may be taken off when desired; then again, the appearance ofthe same. with my improvement is not unsightly and the bolt does notprotrude into the drawer or on the inside of the door or panel, leavingpractically a smooth surface.

I claim:

A knob for use in connection with an article having parallel fiat faces,an opening extending partly through the article from one of said flatfaces and a recess opening onto the other of said flat faces andcommunicating with said opening and being of greater diameter than saidopening, comprising a knob body having broad, fiat, inner and outerfaces connected by an axial bore, a bolt whose length is less than thatof the combined thickness of the knob body and the article with whichthe knob is engaged, said bolt adapted to extend Ill) through theopening in the article and to provided with a flathead edapted to beerterminate in the recess between the ends against one of the flat facesof the article there0f,endanut coat-ting with the bolt and and to forceone of the flat feces of the 10 having a cylindrical extension adaptedto knob against the other fiat face of said 5 rotate in said recess andto be held by the article.

wells thereof in a permanent plane with the bolt and against eantingthereon and ALBERTUS J. BUTTER.

